84 percent of workers searching for a new job

If you've considered taking Johnny Paycheck's advice (above) and leaving that job on an oil field - or any industry - you aren't alone.

A new survey by Right Management, a consulting firm, found that 84 percent of employees are planning to search for a new job in 2012. Only 5 percent of workers are happy in their current position, according to the poll.

Two years ago, the same survey found 60 percent of workers were looking to leave their jobs, and 13 percent said they were content in their current positions.

Bram Lowsky, a senior vice president at Right Management, said in a press release that the survey shows employees aren't happy with their workplaces right now, and they feel constrained by the economic uncertainty that's stifled job opportunities.

"Employees are restless and feel they are lacking in options," he said in a statement. "The prolonged period of economic uncertainty has meant much less job mobility than usual, and employees understandably believe they have fewer career opportunities."

The poll, which asked 1,000 employees in North America, comes on the heels of a new job report that showed the unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent last month, it's lowest since March 2009.

More than 120,000 jobs were added last month, but an estimated 315,000 people gave up looking for work.

With that good news-bad news situation, can you really blame employees for wanting to look for work?

Dan X. McGraw has covered a variety of beats for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer and The Dallas Morning News. He also covered the Fort Hood massacre for The New York Daily News. He's also worked for KDAF-TV in Dallas as a reporter and web producer.